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PARTITIONIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does partitionist mean?
• PARTITIONIST (noun)
The noun PARTITIONIST has 1 sense:
1. an advocate of partitioning a country
Familiarity information: PARTITIONIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An advocate of partitioning a country
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("partitionist" is a kind of...):
advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)
Derivation:
partition (the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart)
partition (divide into parts, pieces, or sections)
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"The word goes out but the message is lost." (Corsican proverb)